Fast Facts

Grammarly is seeking a Staff Growth Designer to enhance user acquisition through innovative design and experimentation within a dynamic hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design growth systems, optimize the website for user engagement, conduct user testing, mentor designers, and create new acquisition concepts.

Skills: Expertise in web and mobile design, strong prototyping and visual design skills, and a passion for growth strategy and user psychology.

Qualifications: 7+ years of experience in product design focusing on business growth; must have a storytelling ability and a curiosity for user needs and data-driven decision making.

Location: Hybrid - San Francisco

Compensation: $250000 - $305000 / Annually

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of theFortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 7 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an innovative, craft-caring Staff Growth Designer to join our Acquisition team within the Growth Area. Their designs will reach millions of people daily and make Grammarly’s value so clear and undeniable that our top-of-funnel overflows with new users excited to get started with Grammarly. The person in this role will collaborate with a fun, diverse team of talented growth experts, all passionate about experimentation and innovative growth strategies. Furthermore, their influence will shape how Grammarly’s AI capabilities are showcased to professionals and students, demonstrating why Grammarly is the top AI writing partner!

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, content designers, data scientists, and user researchers to design efficient growth systems, conduct experiments, and create new experiences that significantly boost new user growth.
• Partner with the Organic Acquisition Marketing and Creative team to optimize our website, ensuring potential customers easily understand and act on Grammarly’s value.
• Understand Grammarly’s strategic business goals and user needs to actively contribute toward identifying key growth opportunities and building a cohesive roadmap with your team.
• Conduct user testing on your designs, capture insights gained, and seamlessly integrate these findings into iterative design improvements. 
• Elevate design standards for acquisition surfaces, ensuring on-trend, high-quality execution that pushes us forward.
• Mentor designers and cross-functional partners, fostering agile problem-solving and encouraging high-quality craft and outcomes.
• Maintain and grow/expand design standards that showcase Grammarly’s trusted brand.
• Envision and create concepts for new acquisition solutions and vision. 
• Be curious about and constantly learn about new ways of approaching top of funnel opportunities.

Qualifications 

• Has 7+ years of shipping product designs that drive business growth.
• Excels in designing for web and mobile web experiences.
• Possesses storytelling charm to inspire support for design direction.
• Demonstrates prototyping skills for bringing ideas to life.
• Exhibits strong visual design skills that elevate team standards.
• Can adapt between zero-to-one projects and iterative work.
• Geeks out on growth strategy, user psychology, and conversion goals.
• Loves running A/B tests to gather data-driven insights that optimize designs.
• Is highly curious about user needs and business goals.
• Is passionate about the AI and productivity industry.
• Seeks research to develop hypotheses and inform design decisions.
• Balances craft, critical thinking, and business needs delivering meaningful impact.
• Has a growth mindset and runs wholeheartedly toward a challenge.
• Is driven to collaborate and drive projects to completion.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Compensation and benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations. In Canada, all locations where we support employment are considered “Zone 1”. 

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and maybe modified in the future. 

Zone 1: $250,000 - $305,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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